Alteration of cytokine levels by fosfomycin and prednisolone in spontaneous proliferation of cultured lymphocytes from patients with HTLV-I- associated myelopathy (HAM/TSP)

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 163-167

  Yamano, Yoshihisa ^a   Machigashira, Koichi ^a   Ijichi, Shinji ^a   Usuku, Koichiro ^a   Kawabata, Masaharu ^a   Arimura, Kimiyoshi ^a   Osame, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fosfomycin; HTLV I associated myelopathy tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM TSP); Human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV I); Lymphocyte proliferation

Indexed keywords

FOSFOMYCIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1; PREDNISOLONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOSFOMYCIN; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; PREDNISOLONE; THYMIDINE;

EID: 0030849516     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(97)00118-4     Document Type: Article

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